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Women shouldn't be allowed to vote because they vote for "freedom to kill babies in the womb" and blacks should go back to the plantation

Fox News guest laments âmistakeâ of letting women vote

Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, a tea party activist thatâs appeared several times on Fox News, and founder of an organization where Sean Hannity serves as an advisory board member, said in a sermon recently published to YouTube that Americaâs greatest mistake was allowing women the right to vote, adding that back in âthe good old days, men knew that women are crazy and they knew how to deal with them.â

In the video, published to YouTube in March, Peterson explains that he believes women simply canât handle âanything,â and that in his experience, âYou walk up to them with a issue, they freak out right away. They go nuts. They get mad. They get upset, just like that. They have no patience because itâs not in their nature. They donât have love. They donât have love.â

Despite his statements being online for more than a month, Hannity welcomed Peterson on his show last Tuesday to castigate the Obama administration over âtaking creditâ for the Osama bin Laden assassination â but the segment didnât exactly go as planned.

In his March sermon, Peterson adds that Sandra Fluke, a Georgetown Law student who recently spoke to a House Democratic hearing on contraception coverage, was actually revealing âall the sexâ college students are having. âItâs really all about maintaining the freedom to kill babies in the womb,â he says. âWomen are now degraded. Women have no shame.â

At roughly 8:30 into his 12-minute sermon, he doubles down, amazingly, saying that he believes America went wrong when it gave women the right to vote.

âI think that one of the greatest mistakes America made was to allow women the opportunity to vote,â Peterson says. âWe shouldâve never turned this over to women. And these women are voting in the wrong people. Theyâre voting in people who are evil who agrees with them whoâre gonna take us down this pathway of destruction.â

âAnd this probably was the reason they didnât allow women to vote when men were men. Because men in the good old days understood the nature of the woman,â he adds. âThey were not afraid to deal with it. And they understood that, you let them take over, this is what would happen.â

Peterson, founder of the conservative religious group Brotherhood Organization of A New Destiny (BOND), appeared on the Fox News Channel on May 1, more than a month after giving his controversial sermon. Fox News host Kirsten Powers even confronted Peterson about his âmysogynisticâ speech and challenged Hannity to repudiate it, but the Republican opinion host did not, and instead gave Peterson a platform to denounce âliberal, women policies.â

Speaking to Peterson on May 1, Powers protested his appearance on Hannityâs show, explaining that she was âhijackingâ it because âI didnât know I was going to be on with him.â She then accused him of âusing Godâs word to teach misogyny.â

âI donât know if you noticed or not, but the liberal Democrat womens are calling themselves whores,â Peterson replied. âThey came out with their so called group of women who are within the Democrat party, and they are admitting that theyâre whores and they are saying that they are proud of it. Iâm okay with that, I just donât want to pay for it.â

âI have a responsibility to tell the truth,â he added âYouâre on the side of lies. Why shouldnât I be on the side of truth? And itâs the truth thatâs gonna make us free. Somebody gotta tell the truth, so Iâm going to tell the truth.â

That âtruth,â it would seem, isnât just about liberal women, or even women in general. Peterson made headlines in January after telling a Huffington Post reporter that he would like to see black people put âback on the plantation so they would understand the ethic of workingâŚ They need a good hard education on what it is to work.â On his website, Peterson has published an open letter to Attorney General Eric Holder that advocates the arrest of New Black Panthers members.

In another post, he explains what he calls âthe end of one-sided defense,â in which Peterson insists that men should re-take the right to physically strike women. âWhile I certainly do not sanction men attacking women, neither is it right for men to allow themselves to be beaten by a woman,â he wrote. âItâs time for men to re-assert their right to self defense.â

Peterson has also been on the leading edge of racially-motivated Republican attacks on Planned Parenthood, alleging at a press conference in 2008 that the group is responsible for killing âover 1,500 black babiesâ every day.

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